bundle vs pincushion

bundle

noun
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. 

  • A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle. 

  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying. 

  • A large amount, especially of money. 

  • A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets). 

  • A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres. 

  • A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case. 

  • A group of products or services sold together as a unit. 

  • Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space. 

  • A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle. 

verb
  • To dress someone warmly. 

  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. 

  • To tie or wrap together into a bundle. 

  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up 

  • To hurry. 

  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out. 

  • To sell hardware and software as a single product. 

  • Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim. 

  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place. 

pincushion

noun
  • A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically. 

  • The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia. 

  • A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum. 

  • The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis. 

  • A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections. 

  • The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant. 

  • A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa. 

  • The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria. 

verb
  • To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion. 

  • To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards. 

How often have the words bundle and pincushion occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )